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Hi Liz,
Yes, you can say that. Essentially nature is in perfect balance. It’s the uncorrected human ego within nature that ultimately causes all the destruction and throws off the balance in nature.
Check out these blog posts from Rav Laitman for more details:
https://laitman.com/2013/08/wolves-help-grizzly-bears-and-us/
https://laitman.com/2016/03/the-whole-world-is-a-single-system/
https://laitman.com/2016/01/chernobyl-is-flourishing/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Sara,
The Creator is the pure quality of love and bestowal. As such, He does not lack anything. Meaning He does not need us to bestow anything to Him. The only ones benefiting from this whole process is us.
Although we sometimes use the words that we perform a certain action in order to bestow to the Creator or to bring Him contentment or for his Glory, but in truth it’s just a game to help us to develop. Just like with kids, when we spoon feed them, they see the example from us and want to pick up a spoon and feed us back. Do we really need them to feed us? Of course not. But we still accept this from them, smile, show them how happy they made us by feeding us etc, since we know that through this game, they grow and develop. So ultimately the Creator is not lacking anything. And all of our attempts to bestow to Him are nothing more than a type of game for our own development.
Check out this article of Rabash for more details: https://kabbalahmedia.info/en/sources/GaZtLpMe?source_language=en
Furthermore, we need to keep in mind that we never perceive reality from the Creator’s point of view. And even Kabbalistic quotes that seemingly speak from the Creator’s point of view, nonetheless, these are not from His actual point of view, but rather, how they felt these things within their corrected desires.
In general, Kabbalah divides our research of the Creator into two parts:
The first is His essence (atzmuto in Hebrew). This is He Himself, His point of view, the Creator as an entity separate from the Created beings. We’re incapable of researching this part of the Creator because our research tools are not built in such a way that we can grasp such things. Perhaps after we finish the process of correction, we’ll discover additional research tools through which we’ll be able to research these things, but until then we limit ourselves and don’t talk about this part of the Creator because we cannot properly research it.
The other part of the Creator is called Bo-Re (Hebrew for Come (Bo) and See (Re)). This is the part of the Creator that we can research and reveal. How do we research this? Through the desire. When we take a part of our desire to receive and correct it in the direction of bestowal, in that corrected desire, we reveal a certain phenomenon, we call this phenomenon the Creator. This is why there are many names for the Creator (in Hebrew), since every time we correct a different part of the desire, we reveal a different aspect of this thing called the Creator.
So all of our understanding of this thing called the Creator is based on what we reveal within the corrected desire. But whatever exists outside of the corrected desire, whatever we don’t grasp, perceive or attain within the desire, whatever is beyond our tools of research, we don’t talk about. We need to keep these limits in mind in order to stay within the realm of science and not venture off into religion or philosophy.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/11/the-concept-of-god-in-kabbalah/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Chris,
That is correct, we don’t speak about our personal attainments. Kabbalists don’t share their personal revelations with anyone, since people are not yet corrected and this evokes negative envy, which ultimately harms both parties.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2011/05/do-not-trigger-fire-upon-yourself/
The exception to this rule is with one’s spouse. Since the spouse is essentially considered an extension of ourselves, like one’s other half. But even then, it should be done very gently, without violating the rule that “there is no coercion in spirituality”.
As for questions like “how does it feel”. Each person is unique and feels the world through their uniqueness, so it’s impossible to compare how one person feels spirituality with another.
Although we can say that whoever reaches the same spiritual degree will experience the same things that are found on that spiritual degrees. But nonetheless, each one will experience those things through their own uniqueness. Just like two people can be riding in the same car, one person can feel hot while another can feel cold.
And if we’re talking about two different spiritual degrees, then their experiences are light years away from each other. This is because every new spiritual degree comes with a completely different set of values and way of thinking. What was valid on the previous degree, becomes false on the current one. What we used to value previously, becomes worthless. This is called “what is waste for the upper is nourishment for the lower”.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2017/01/rising-to-a-new-degree/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Rebecca,
The fragments are us. Essentially all of humanity are parts of a single system, like cells within a single body. This connection between us is currently concealed or fragmented. It’s as if this body is under a state of anesthesia and does not feel itself as one body. Our job is ultimately to reconnect this system back together, starting from a small Kabbalistic group, until we’re able to expand this connection to cover the whole world.
We’ll learn about this in the more advanced lessons, in the meantime, check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2014/05/puzzle-adam-harishon/
We’ll learn how to interpret a few of the stories in the Kabbalistic books together throughout the semesters, but the true key to unlocking that code is not something learned but rather something that comes with spiritual attainment. Without spiritual attainment, we cannot truly understand these things. It’s like a blind person that is trying to study colors. He can learn the wavelengths behind each one, the different feelings they all evoke, but ultimately he will never truly understand colors. But if this blind person was to undergo an operation and gain his sense of sight, how easy and simple it would be to teach him colors. We would simply point to it and say “this is red”.
It’s the same with the language of roots and branches used in Kabbalistic books. It’s currently impossible for us to truly grasp that language. But once we gain our “spiritual sight” we would pick these things up very easily and naturally.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2010/12/the-spiritual-decoder/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Eugenio,
Our nature is the desire to receive pleasure. This nature does not change. What does change is the intention that we place over this desire. Meaning that instead of using our nature to receive for our own sake, we use it to receive in order to bestow. So ultimately, the desire to receive remains as the desire to receive, but it begins to operate in the direction of bestowal.
Check out this blog post from Rav Laitman for more details: https://laitman.com/2024/07/correction-is-changing-the-intention/
Albert @ KabU
Hi Mikel,
It could be both. It could be curiosity or it could be the point in the heart ripening and pulling him to a few places to see if anything resonates with him.
Check out my reply to Frederick below for more details.
Albert @ KabU
